The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-25
AMONG THE MEASLBY MORMONs,
A Glimps Into the Manners and Customs
of This Much Married People.

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of This Much Married People.
Salt Lake City is situated near
" in the center OF Salt Lake Val
ley. This valley is 1870 miles long
and varies in width from - 20 30
miles. The valley is bounded on
the north east by the Wasatch
range of mountains and on the
north west aud south west by the
Oquirrh range. Great Salt Lake
forms its northern boundary. This
lake is 100 miles in length by 40
miles wide and about 30 feet deep
and is 4 200 feet above sea level
Utah lake, a beautiful sheet OF
trcsh water 30 miles by Is miles in
size and 80 miles distant from the
extremely salty waters of the Grea,
e. Salt Lake, Is connected with it by
the River Jordan, which flows out
of Utah Lake and carries q beauti
full volume of fresh water across the
valley and empties it into the large
lake. The waters of the Great Salt
Lake are more saltish than the
ocean, containing Is per cent. OF
pure salt One charming feature
about it for one who cannot swim
like myselfis that you cannot sink
in it, the only danger in bathing
being strangulation from getting
the water in the mouth and nose.
A large number of sea eulis in
search Of crumbs, float lazjly about
the long rows Of bathing rooms al
Garfield Beach which is the most
CHARMING beach and bathing resort
ou-the lake and is 90 miles from
Salt Lake city and the bathing is
pronounced by very many tourists
who have visited the finest resorts
IN the world, to be the finest known
anywhere. The Denver and Rio
Grande Il. r. Co. run ears four
times a day to the beach which they
have improved most handsomely
and named in honor Of Garfield. l
visited it Saturday afternoon and
had a most delightful bath. There
were several hundred present and
nearly ali who go battle.
Salt gathering is quite q business
here. IT. is gathered and loaded in
open cara like oar coal cars and
vast quantities are shipped to Mon
tana and other places to he used 10
milling ore II bas chemical prop
critics which render it useful in sep
arating the mineral from the pulp
1t is to limited extent refined and
used for table purposes but is intc-
Tior TO our eastern salt for this pur-
pose.
A little steamer plies the waters
and makes numerous excursions to
an Island situated near the center,
some 2 miles by in size. Ere
quent squalls disturb the placid 90
som of the lake. Like Lake Genncs-
sarcth IN Palestine, it is surr0u nd
ed by ranges of mountains and
down The gorges between these the
gathering winds descend and spend
their fury on the tranquil sea, plow-
ing it into great waves which roar
aud rush, warning bathers TO seek
the shore and cndangering those
who may be caught far out from
land IN boats Only once so far
has a hapless bather been caught
by the tide and carried off. In
vain they searched for his body
until it, was abandoned. Fina llY,
long months after the mishap. his
body was found washed up on shore
some forty miles down the beach.
The lake, the green valley which
it bounds on one side, the river
Jordan which traverses this valley
and connects the two lakes. the
gray hills which rise up in the dis
lance higher and higher until the
topmost and farthermost peaks seem
90 rest against the clouds, this
certainly was a scene sufficient to
attract the notice of Brigham Young
and his company of Mormons who
driven out iof Nauvoo, Illinois, IN
1915, and after an unsatisfactory
attempt at settlement at IndeDen-
dent, Mo, pushed his way on be
yond the Rocky Mountains, beyond
the range of civilization in seach oil
new country where he might plan,
his colony and grow up his system
unmolested. lie paused in tai.
beautiful valley and founded Sal,
Lake City in 1916, naming the con
meeting river between the lakes
Jordan.
- The seclusion of the colony anG
sleir adopted home was favorable
10 very rapid growth of this sect
and after a while from nearly al
the nations of the earth. the poor
the ignorant and the cranky wer,
easily attracted TO this asylum b,
the promise of l60 acres Of lane
and country where they
were taught to believe lihert,
meant license TO do as you please
AS sat to day in the great taber
nacle hich seats II, 600 people anC
which was about full, and scru
tlnized the vast sea of faces which
rose higher and higher on the as
eending grade from the altar
could but notice the striking for
cign features which characterized
nine-tentbs of them. not only 50
but there was generally some an
2yularibV or malformation Of feature